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Islip Town Supervisor blames slow snow removal on aging equipment, small workforce
Islip Town Supervisor Tom Croci said Monday that all of the town's streets had been touched by a plow at least once and its cleanup efforts were partly impaired by the volume of the snow -- nearly 3 feet in some places -- malfunctioning equipment and a smaller workforce than in recent years because of budget cuts.
The town had access to more than 300 plows -- about 125 town-owned and another...
